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One of the myths surrounding deadly meningitis is that it’s a disease that only affects babies and young children. This is not true – anyone of any age can get meningitis, and one of the age groups more at risk is older adults; those over the age of 55. It’s for this reason that UK-charity Meningitis Now has launched a new awareness campaign – Adults Get It Too.

This World Meningitis Day, CoMO members Patti Wukovits (of The Kimberly Coffey Foundation) and Alicia Stillman (of The Emily Stillman Foundation) will join U.S. Congressman Erik Paulsen (MN) and Congressman Mike Bishop (MI) in Washington D.C. to introduce a Resolution to the U.S. House of Representatives that would designate April 24th as National Meningitis B Awareness Day in the United States.